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Rarebooks Now Offered

A Woman With a Single Passion

I am a woman with many interests but few passions (Most of my passions fitting neatly between 2 cover-boards.)

Atop being a Author, Editor and voracious bookworm, I am a collector/seller of rare and gently used books. A listing of books from my own collection that I am currently offering can now be found on my homepage. The inventory will be updated as new editions are found.

To visit my rare book store front click here or use the [Rare Book Collection] tab at the top of the page.

Oak Wise (Expanded and Revised) Now on Amazon.com

The revised and expanded edition of Oak Wise: Poetry Exploring an Ecological Faith is now available on Amazon.com.

Oak Wise is a collection of Celtic-themed narrative poetry exploring the old wisdom of the Druidic and Shamanic ways of life. This collection is approachable to the curious seeker just beginning their exploration of the Old Ways; while at the same time remains insightful to long-time pathwalker. As a preface to her work, Browning offers her readers an introduction to the central beliefs of Shamanism, then proceeds to her poetry, where she descends with the reader into a intimate account of one seeker reflecting on the "Biological Mother" (the earth) while communing the ancestral consciousness to which we each are connected. In this, her debut work, Browning brilliantly reintroduces the ecological sensitivities of the old Earth-based faiths, which are profoundly relevant in this current age of environmental crisis.

"… Oak Wise is gentle, yet unrelenting in its exhortation of us to return to the land and a more conscious, spiritually engaged way of life." –J.M. Reinbold, Author of: Cernunnos, Ancient Celtic God

"In times when many are starting to remember we forgot many things along the road, the journey of L.M. Browning might arise other landscapes into the reader's life and the way we relate to nature and ourselves." --Ximena Eduarda, Druid Network

"In societies that still bear an imprint of 'the shamanic', male and female shamans are a voice of the sacred. In these worlds, from bardic Ireland to the crazy wisdom ngakpas of the Himalayas, poetry is a facet of the shamanic tradition. The work of L.M. Browning is undoubtedly one of these wisdom-streams. Her sight, voice and verses are a force of nature, simultaneously reminding us what we've forgotten and foretelling what we must remember to survive." -Frank Owen, creator of the online poetry experience NEKYIA.POETRY

"Browning's poems are of exquisite quality. Like all excellent poetry, no modifier, no imagery, no reference is gratuitous. Ms Browning's literary background is not only impressive, it is esthetically set to reinforce and construct a world of rich imagery. This work, is a serious expression with a precise goal and a dexterous poetic sense of architecture. There is a philosophical peace that overlays even the passages of questioning and unease in the writer's mind. The author takes us to a beautiful lyrical place that she has found and uses her talent as a poet to entice us." – Jean-Yves Vincent Solinga, Ph.D Author of In the Shade of a Flower and Clair-Obscur of the Soul

The New Homepage

I am immensely proud to announce the launch of the new homepage. Many of you who come here often may not have realized that you were automatically redirected from our old address to our new domain: www.lmbrowning.com This site will now function as the homepage for my work, offering updates on all of my current projects as well as poems, letter, photos, previews and so forth. While the Bound Leaves Blog Site will be run on Blogger and will solely feature new poetry. I hope you enjoy. Browse around, see what is new and don't forget to update your bookmarks. Thank you for your continued support.

In Honor of the First Anniversary of Oak Wise and National Poetry Month {Contest}

In honor of April being National Poetry Month as well as the continued celebration of the First Anniversary of Oak Wise: Poetry Exploring an Ecological Faith, we are offering one of the few remaining First Editions of Oak Wise signed by the author as a free gift. To enter the contest, share a link to this post on your Facebook page with a comment of support. Or you can post a comment of support on this contest's thread on L.M. Browning's Facebook Page. On April 24, 2011 we will choose one winner from among all those who enter. You can only enter once a day. Good luck!

Read the first 20 pages of Oak Wise here on Scribd.com

Win a Free Signed First Edition in Honor of the First Anniversary of Oak Wise and National Poetry Month

In honor of April being National Poetry Month as well as the continued celebration of the First Anniversary of Oak Wise: Poetry Exploring an Ecological Faith, we are offering one of the few remaining First Editions of Oak Wise signed by the author as a free gift. To enter the contest, share a link to this post on your Facebook page with a comment of support. Or you can post a comment of support on this contest's thread on L.M. Browning's Facebook Page. On April 24, 2011 we will choose one winner from among all those who enter. You can only enter once a day. Good luck!

To Read the first 20 pages of Oak Wise here on Scribd.com

An Open Letter to My Unborn Lover {A Poem}

{Image by Duncan George (c) Duncan George}



An Open Letter to My Unborn Lover



You will find it
–the means of traveling
backward through time–
your generation will build the mechanism
or discover the displaced doorway
by which you will have a way to come to me.
And free me from this place and time
unto which I have never belonged.
Read more –>>

Summer 2011 Reading Tours

Click on above to be taken to events page.

First Anniversary Broadsheet Collection

In honor of the First Anniversary of  Oak Wise: Poetry Exploring an Ecological Faith I am offering a series of Collective Broadsheets featuring selections from each, Oak Wise, Ruminations at Twilight and  The Barren Plain . These broadsheets are of archival quality. They are 10 x 12 in size, printed on acid-neutral cotton paper with sepria ink. Hand-signed by the author.
Preview an unsigned PDF version of the BroadSheet Collection here.
{This collection can be purchased for $7.95 + shipping and handling.}



Purchase All 3 titles and receive the Broadsheet Series as a Gift.



As an additional promotion, the Broadsheet Collection will be offered as a complementary gift to anyone who purchases the entire Contemplative Series, which we are now offering at the promotional price of $49.99 + shipping (as opposed to $59.99.)
Included in this bundle are signed First Editions of each, Oak Wise, Ruminations at Twilight and The Barren Plain. Please note that, while each title will continue to be available in mass market editions, there are a limited number of First Editions remaining. When our stocks are gone the offer will end. Likewise, the Broadsheet Collection, we did a limited printing of 50 sets, once we sell out they will not be offered again.
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These promotions are offered only author direct.
To place an order email our office at bound.leaves@yahoo.com
{At this time we are only able to accept check or money order.}

Future Primitive Podcast Interview

Joanna Harcourt Smith interviewing me for Future Primitive.
I was honored by Joanna's invitation to discuss my work and the "greater issues".
I have said it before, speaking with her was like discussing spirituality with an old friend.
She left me speechless a few times with her wide range of questions but then again,
there is always so much to talk about when kindred-minds meet.

Future Primitive Podcast

Joanna Harcourt Smith interviewing me for Future Primitive.
I was honored by Joanna's invitation to discuss my work and the "greater issues".
I have said it before, speaking with her was like discussing spirituality with an old friend.
She left me speechless a few times with her wide range of questions but then again,
there is always so much to talk about when kindred-minds meet.